The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-05
THE GOSSIP OF THE TOWN.
TRIPLES CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY
THE NEWS'S REPORTERS.


The New York Star the other day pub
lshed Eeat letter from Governor Robert
S. Green enclosing his subscription to the
Stars Grant Monument Fund.
Lawyer Peter Bentley is said to be one
of the richest men in the County. But he
has none of the ostentations of a purse
proud aristocrat and is as generous and
courtly to those who have less than he as
he is to those who have as much or more
than he.
Henry Frinck was one of the death watch
posted by Sheriff Heintze over murderer
Disdue. He used to be worth 10000,
but was glad to make the pittance this
dreary work put at his disI osal. One of
the mysteries is how he lost his handsome
fortune.
If you want to hear fellow talk behind
ones back, you iuse ought to hear Street
Commissioner Nathan talk of his white
mare when he holds the reins over her.
Well, she is pretty animal. and probably
deserves all the complimentary things he
says of her.
Mr.. George B. Harvey the accomplished
editor of the Worlds New Jersey edition,
has been slightly out-distanced by Hon.
Henry @. Kelsey in securing money for
Mcclellan Monument Fund. The Secre-
tary of States total is about $4,000. Mr..
Ha1vey's is slightly under $500.
Ex-Governor Albeit is recovering from
quite protracted sickness at his home on
Sussex Place. He has been sutf ring
from remittent fever, but its spell is broken,
and he is able to give little attention to
his large law practice. There's one man
this State can't afford 10 lose and his
name is Leon Albeit.
Ia-a-.1-T Njo-1-a ,o1- I,;o al MT t1,o
bridge on Vreeland street, taking definite
shape The south abutment has been
completed, and the iron girders are on the
ground. He hopes to see it in shape for
use by the opening of next month. The
bridge will open to the horsemen, he says,
one Of ths handsomest drives in Jersey
City.
The Pennsylvania Railroad officials are
talking vigorously now, of project they
have contemplated for many years-that of
locating their main ferry at the foot of
First street. 1t is said that then they can
run their trains in on elevated tracks with
out any more ado. The effect on the low
or part of the city of such a change would
be disastrous.
Judge William B. Rankin is going abroad
within the next ten days. He will sail for
Europe on the steamer Alaska on the 14th
inst HIS old friend and chum sfAleck"
McGarron, of New York. will accompany
him. They propose to edo the continent
from ireland TO Austria, aud from Gib1al-
tar to Siberia, and they expect to be three
months about it.
The politicians who have been wonder
ing why Mayor Cleveland has been SO
actively busy at balls and concerts and
public gatherings of late can be told now.
He does not want TO be Sheriff. He has
no ambition to get back into Congress He
would not be United States Senator for a
fortune But he t5o,dd like to be Mayor of
Jersey City again.
The SUNDAY MORNING News is in receipt
of an invitation from the Erie Railroad to
-aCc0mpany an excursiC n of newspaper
men to Shohola Glen, al d to eat dinner
to be given On the grounds there next
Tuesday. 1t viii be delightful trip in
delightful company under pleasing man
agement, and the News man will try to
make an effort to be in attendance.
Van Hise of Newark, the man who
oficlated at the execution of Disque in the
Jail the other day, is not without history
of his own. He used to be the janitor of
the Essex County Court House, and en-
ployed woman to wash the linen used
there He induced her to make oath to
prison on a charge of subornation of per-
ury.
The Hon. Jeremiah b. Clevelands news
man failed to leave his SUNDAY MORNING
News at his house last Sunday, and he WIS
surprised to learn, when he went to church
in the evening, that we had elected him
Water Registrar of the city. He wanted
econ" Healey to surrender at once but
Mr.. Healey seemed to tn ink that the Board
of Works had as big voice in the matter as
the SUNDAY MORNING NEWS, and so Jerry
is still waiting
Judge Lippincott, in his charge TO the
Jury last Friday, in the trial of the Pinker-
ton detectives, clearly estimated his opin-
ion of the conduct of the Pinkerton agency
ia respect of the killing of Tommy Hogan.
He said thar if Sheehy WAS not the man
who fired the shot, the Pinkerton agency
knew who did it, and it was an obligation
due to the law and to society to deliver the
guilty party for punishment. But the
Pinkeg;on agency evidently does not view
the matter in that light.
People who know what kind of roman
Ger Dr. De Croft. Of Union Hill, is, opened
their eyes in wonder when they read his
story of his SAC, 900 robbery in the papers
of last Monday morning-no not at the size
of his story, for he can tell bigger whop-
per with more grace than any man in the
caunty,-but at the suspicion that he
should have woven SO great fable around |
himself But there is reason to believe
that he has not oyerstated the facts this
time to any alarming extent
The sudden death, one day last week, of
James I. Hough removes a gentleman who,
while in the Police Board, was quite con-
spicuous in political circles here. He mad
no taste for politics, however, and with
drew at the expiration of his term. OF late
he has been engaged in building railroad
in Central New York, and our people
rather lost sight of him. He was married